# Mexican Repatriation **Status: stub.** A campaign of coerced removal during the Great Depression (roughly 1929–1936) in which federal, state, and local governments deported or pressured to leave an estimated 400,000 to 2 million people of Mexican descent — an estimated 60% of whom were U.S. citizens. Driven by Depression-era scapegoating and the demand to "free up" jobs, it remains one of the largest forced-removal episodes in U.S. history and an early instance of citizenship offering no protection against ethnically targeted [[Nativism]]. See also: [[US Immigration Timeline]].